Inventions Of the 1970s

Home VCR invented

Big bulky plastic tapes that held our favorite movies and cartoons. A step behind the CD but, still truly a great invention in it's time. Family movies were brought from the reels and stored onto VCR tapes. These tapes were more durable and took up less space than the reels of film.

Nov 19, 1970

Floppy Disk Invented

Created by Alan Shugart the floppy disk is an electronic storage medium.

Jul 1, 1971

Email invented

Ray Tomlinson created the first electonic mailing device to be used by his friends but it soon spread throughout the country

LCD Invented

Hacky Sack

John STalberger and Mike Marshall.
American sport kicking a fist sized ball around with a partner, in a circle, or by oneself.

Jun 16, 1972

Pong invented

First video game invented by Atari inc. Made to simulate table tennis

Feb 12, 1973

Genetic Engineering

This is the direct human manipulation of an organism's genome using modern DNA technology. It involves the introduction of foreign DNA or synthetic genes into the organism of interest.

Apr 20, 1973

Bar code Created

Commonly used today, sometimes in n evolved manner, the bar code was an optical machine read le way of representing data by varying bar widths.

Oct 25, 1973

Disposable Lighter

Invented by BIC, mentioned in TIME, the disposable lighter could provide 3,000 lights before wearing out.

Nov 30, 1974

Post-it Note Invented

In 1974, Art Fry came up with the idea of using an adhesive to anchor his bookmark in his book. Fry then developed the idea by taking advantage of 3M's officially sanctioned "permitted bootlegging" policy. From there on Post-it-notes have been used all around the world.

Mar 30, 1975

Pushthough Top on Pop Can

Oct 18, 1976

Ink Jet Printer Invented

A type of computer printer that creates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper. Inkjet printers are the most commonly used type of printer and range from small inexpensive consumer models to very large professional machines that can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Dec 25, 1977

MRI Scanner

An MRI machine uses a powerful magnetic field to align the magnetization of some atomic nuclei in the body, and radio frequency fields to systematically alter the alignment of this magnetization. This causes the nuclei to produce a rotating magnetic field detectable by the scanner—and this informat
Raymon V. Damadiand

Mar 30, 1978

Jarvik-7 Atrificial Heart

First used in 1982
inveted by Robert Jarvik

Jun 12, 1979

Cell Phone Invented

Portable phone using radio links to make and recieve calls, most commonly used today, with many alterations.